By Michael Ezenwata
The Catholic Men Organization, St. Patrick’s Cathedral Parish Awka, has announced its programme of activities to finish strong this fiscal year.
According to the Chairman of the organization Brother Obinna Anakwuba, who presided over its last quarterly meeting for the year at the St. Patrick’s Cathedral Parish hall Awka, the group will end the year with an end of the year party slated for December 21.
Brother Anakwuba highlighted arrangements by the organization to use the forum to honour its members who have attained the age of 80 years and above and exempt them from its statutory levies, as well as to give certificates of recognition to its past executive officers who served the organization meritoriously over the years.
The Chairman’s announcement further anchored on a provision to give palliatives of one 25kg rice to each of a carefully selected three less privileged members from each of the nine zones in the parish namely Holy Trinity, St. Patrick’s, St. Albert, St. Michael, St. Francis, St. Rita, St. Benedict, St. Theresa and St. Charles.
For the harvest and bazaar activities of the parish slated for the 14th day of December, Brother Anakwuba announced that the organization will attend the 10 o’clock Thanksgiving Mass with a gift of three cows and tubers of yam distributed according to the capacity of the aforementioned zones.
To this end, he urged all members of the organization to appear in their statutory uniforms to be part of the grand occasion.
He further announced that all the newly elected officers of the statutory CMO, CWO and CYON bodies are to participate in a leadership workshop scheduled to hold on November 30 at the St. Patrick’s Cathedral Parish hall Awka.
Brother Anakwuba formally announced that the tenure of the present parish CMO will officially come to an end on December 21, 2025 when it will hand over to an incoming executive members of the organization.
Ezenwata is of the Ministry of Information, Anambra State
